Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But… — J. Robert Lennon
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid… — Henry Edward Armstrong
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when… — Henry David Thoreau
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,… — Henry David Thoreau
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which… — Milan Kundera
The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up… — Lauren Oliver
I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. — Gretchen Rubin
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture… — Michael Behe
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important -… — Idries Shah
Be neither too remote nor too familiar. — Prince Charles
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me -… — Cecily von Ziegesar
I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my… — Alan Parker
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as… — K. Eric Drexler
One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers,… — George Gissing
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to… — Heinrich Heine
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular… — George Henry Lewes
We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions.… — Dick Morris
Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as… — Sheila Walsh
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of… — J R Ward
Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not… — Debbie Ford
Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for… — Rachel Naomi Remen

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